This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Half penny, two penny, gold Krugerrand
He was exceedingly rich for such a young man
Sad story, old story
Bring out the band
Another divorce just a few hundred grand
Half penny, two penny, back of the queue
Yes mister poor man this means you
Justice for money what can you say
We all know it's the American way
Yes, I'm gonna shake myself loose
Back home across the sea
Where I know that I will be free
Half penny, two penny, back in the States
You just couldn't take that African pace
Yes, Mrs. Cleaver your son's home to stay
We all know it's the American way
Yes, I'm gonna shake myself loose
Back home across the sea
Where I know that I will be free
Come here hey Angelo what's happenin'?
Hey, Stosh, good to see ya
What the hell you doin'?
We're tearing this old building down here
Oh you're kiddin' me, remember when we were kids
And we used to come here every Saturday afternoon to see a cartoon?
Yeah, I remember
Well what's she lost to?
Who knows politicians, taxes it's a disgrace
I'm not surprised, they make me sick
They don't make theaters like this any more
Half penny, two penny, ashes to dust
All almighty dollar says in God we trust
Justice for money how much more can I pay
We all know it's the American Way
Yes, I'm gonna shake myself loose
Back home across the sea
Where I know that I will be free
I want to be free
Yes, I'm gonna shake myself loose
Back home across the sea
Where I know that I will be free
We all want to be free
He was exceedingly rich for such a young man
Sad story, old story
Bring out the band
Another divorce just a few hundred grand
Half penny, two penny, back of the queue
Yes mister poor man this means you
Justice for money what can you say
We all know it's the American way
Yes, I'm gonna shake myself loose
Back home across the sea
Where I know that I will be free
Half penny, two penny, back in the States
You just couldn't take that African pace
Yes, Mrs. Cleaver your son's home to stay
We all know it's the American way
Yes, I'm gonna shake myself loose
Back home across the sea
Where I know that I will be free
Come here hey Angelo what's happenin'?
Hey, Stosh, good to see ya
What the hell you doin'?
We're tearing this old building down here
Oh you're kiddin' me, remember when we were kids
And we used to come here every Saturday afternoon to see a cartoon?
Yeah, I remember
Well what's she lost to?
Who knows politicians, taxes it's a disgrace
I'm not surprised, they make me sick
They don't make theaters like this any more
Half penny, two penny, ashes to dust
All almighty dollar says in God we trust
Justice for money how much more can I pay
We all know it's the American Way
Yes, I'm gonna shake myself loose
Back home across the sea
Where I know that I will be free
I want to be free
Yes, I'm gonna shake myself loose
Back home across the sea
Where I know that I will be free
We all want to be free
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